MikeJ

Heh... I used to have 6 running in my apartment before I started getting dedicated servers (so much quieter now, and so much more bandwidth to my servers.) The dedicateds are good deals though. 100 Mbps each in a secure datacenter sure beats half a dozen in a non-controlled environment sharing a DSL line (in my case).

1.5 added some nice options, yes, but it's still a ways from a complete spam solution. I would strongly not recommend relying on 1.5's spam protection alone. You still really should install a 3rd party solution like spam karma or spaminator as you suggested to complement it.

Just chiming in as another wordpress user who's been using Spam Karma for months. It keeps my blog squeeky clean.

If you have your email set to :fail: for non-existant addresses, they'll get a bounce back that should state the user doesn't exist. The exact message they get will be dependent on their provider's mail system, but it should include the message from the receiving host (your TCH server) that reports:

Car from junkyard: $50 Horse: $1,000 Chainsaw: $100 Not having to ever buy gas again: Priceless For everything else, there's MasterCard.

Just for reference as you're looking into your package settings, the one on the left is called Tree and the one on the right is called X. You shouldn't really use the tree version anymore. It's an old skin and won't work 100%.

Can you elaborate? Are you using the same themes in all of them?

I was able to login to bloglines when I tried just now.

I've been getting pretty hooked on 4images but I haven't honestly tried coppermine yet.

The others took care of the easy questions. Someone had to step in and answer the hard one.

He meant AFAIK, which stands for "As far as I know".

I don't currently ride competitively. Mostly charity rides.

A lot of my hobbies revolve around computers, but when I manage to tear myself away, some of my others include: Cycling: Paintball: And assuming things go as planned, hopefully my father and I will get to finishing restoring his corvette from this: Back to it's original configuration which we believe so far to be this:

New runs will stop happening as soon as you remove the cron entry. You may be still getting emails from previous runs if it was run frequently. You should submit a help desk ticket, though, so someone can review it if you continue to see emails.

You may want to look into a tool like Fetchmail if you are on a dynamic ip address or don't want your mailserver to be the primary. It allows you to download mail from a remote mailbox/mailserver and distribute locally.

Most laws, including the primary federal one, CAN-SPAM, create rules for unsolicited commercial email, the key word being unsolicited. If you have a prior relevant relationship with the recipient of the emails, such as a member of your website or a customer who has bought your products already, you don't have to worry about sending them email unless it's not related to the product or service they have asked for/use, and as long as you allow them to request not to recieve future emails. If you want to send unsolicted emails, the CAN-SPAM law has several requirements including, real email addresses (not forged), no misleading subject lines, some form of opt-out method provided in the email, and a physical mailing address of the organization sending the emails, among other things. One of the best summaries of the CAN-SPAM law I've seen is here [note that the link is a PDF file]: http://www.emaillabs.com/pdf/CAN-Spam_Legal_Brief.pdf TotalChoice has no issue with you sending legal solicited email of any type, including commercial. We do not allow unsolicited email of any type, however, regardless of the fact CAN-SPAM allows it under certain conditions. Outside of federal law, we also have to worry about providers blacklisting TCH servers when people complain about unsolicited email, which is just one of the various reasons we have this policy. So if you are sending solicited emails (as you describe is your intent) to members of your website or hobby group (and keep the volume low as we also don't allow large mass mailings) you will be fine, regardless if they are commercial or not. Hopefully that makes it pretty clear.

Thanks! FYI, though, we don't provide ASP hosting.

Whether you use MT or WordPress is pretty much a personal preference thing. MT does have some licensing limitations, but for small blogs that probably won't really matter. I can tell you though, that WordPress can import all of your MT entries pretty easily, and there are some good instructions out there on how exactly to do so (which I can dig up if you need them).

You can't override the email access options. Also, you should use :2095 or :2096 (for SSL) ports for your email logins if you have anyone other than yourself using your email. :2082 will only work for your main (cpanel login) account (for the HTTP popup login portion).

I never added a variable for remote directory. I'll try to add that tonight and repost the script. Try running backups manually via cPanel and see if it sometimes fails. The above script itself doesn't do the backup nor the FTP process. All it does it automate calling the cPanel process that does (basically does a form submit). If you are still having the problem running them manually from cPanel, that will help isolate where they problem might lie. However, cPanel added a "Download Today's Backup" function since I wrote this script, so a simpler way to get your daily backups if you have something like wget on the remote machine is simply to wget the file every day in cron. An example cron entry (all one line): >0 3 * * * wget -q --http-user="youraccount" --http-password="yourpassword" -O /home/backup/dailybackup.tar.gz https://******:2083/getbackup/ Just change "/home/backup/dailybackup.tar.gz" to the directory and filename you want. Note that this would be put as a cron on the remote machine, not under your cPanel account, as the machine running the wget will be receiving the file. You can replace wget with any program (using it's appropriate parameters) that would retrieve and save a URL target.

Note also that there has been a community of users who have stepped up and said they intend to continue the Mozilla application suite development, although it will likely no longer carry the Mozilla name. Personally, I think this is a good move. Firefox and Thunderbird are Mozilla's primary products now. This allows them to focus more on what most people really want.

Hi John, The XSLT processing should work correctly. The problem is the source of your example. The article you are working off of is from 2001. xslt_run() has not been a supported function in PHP since version 4.1.0 (we are running 4.3.10 currently). You can find a list of the currently supported XSLT functions here: http://www.php.net/xslt Good luck with your learning.

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IP address uniqueness for search engine ranking I generally consider to be a misconception by the SEO conspiracy theorists. Craig Silverstein, Director of Technology at Google, for example, has publically stated that shared IP's do not affect their ranking nor banning of sites. Source: Slashdot - Craig Silverstein answers your Google questions

Is it unplugged (or non-existant)?